Christmas from Michael W. Smith
Posted October 14, 2023
By BPence,
Michael W. Smith returns with a new full-length Christmas album, his sixth Christmas project, titled Every Christmas. The album includes six songs from his 2022 EP Christmas at Home, along with six new songs. Smith co-produced the album with son Tyler Michael Smith. This is really a family project. Smith’s daughters Whitney Mooring and Anna Smith are featured throughout, along with his 17 grandchildren. The album features beautiful orchestration throughout.
Here are a few comments about each song on the album:
The Night Before… - This is a brief instrumental featuring piano and orchestration.
Christmas Is Here - This song was written by Smith and daughter Anna Bovi, and features piano, a chorus of all of his grandchildren, and an orchestral arrangement done by Smith’s son, Tyler.
Key lyric:
Ring, ring all the bells
Angels rejoice
Redemption upon us
Here With Us – This beautiful song begins and features an orchestra (strings and horns) and a choir. The song ends with a snippet from the traditional Christmas carol “Deck the Halls”.
Key lyric:
Hallelujah
A babe is born
Singing hallelujah
Be filled with awe and wonder
This Christmas morn
Emmanuel
Our God is here with us
Caroling, Caroling – This classic Christmas song was written by Wihla Hutson and Alfred Burt. The song is led by a choir backed by beautiful strings.
Key lyric:
Caroling, caroling through the town
Christmas bells are ringing
Sometime Every Christmas – This song was written by Smith and Tony Wood. The song has Smith looking back on past Christmases. Like many of us, looking back can bring back memories of those who are no longer with us. The beautiful song features strings, piano, backing vocals and a choir.
Key lyric:
Sometime every Christmas
Can’t say where or when or why
But some moment or some memory
Takes me by surprise
And something in the season
Wells up in my eye
Sometime every Christmas
I cry
How Great Our Joy – This is a traditional German Christmas carol. The song features a choir, strings and horns.
Key lyric:
How great our joy! Great our joy!
Joy, joy, joy! Joy, joy, joy!
Praise we the Lord in heav’n on high!
Praise we the Lord in heav’n on high!
Freeze The Frame - This song was written by Smith and Tony Wood. The song paints pictures of family moments around the holidays. The song features piano, percussion, strings, and daughter Anna Bovi on vocals.
Key lyric:
My only wish this Christmas Eve
Is that we could all remain
Forever here
The One – This song was written by Smith and Whitney Mooring. The song features piano, a choir and strings.
Key lyric:
The joy of Christmas morning
With family in our home
And all the children's laughter
Remind us of the One
Newborn King – This beautiful song is about the newborn king coming tonight, features piano, and a choir.
Key lyric:
Every breath be a holy wonder
Darkness runs from the voice of thunder
I have heard your cries
Dry your weeping eyes
The new born King He comes tonight
The Star - This mostly instrumental, features vocals from Smith’s daughter Whitney Mooring, piano and orchestration.
God with God - This song is about God becoming incarnate in Jesus and coming to Earth to be with us. It was produced, orchestrated, and arranged by David Hamilton, and features the 200+ member Brentwood Baptist Choir.
Key lyric:
Then one holy chosen midnight
Something wild and wonderous
God with God in highest heaven
Suddenly now, God with us
As he promised, God with us
Christmas at Wildwood - This instrumental features Smith on piano.
Favorite songs:
Christmas is Here
Here with Us
Newborn King
God with God
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